It's just annoying when they spoil the forum for others, as one has been doing on a thread recently. Some people can't see them for what they are, and keep 'feeding' them unwittingly. Then they get rude and offensive and decent folk don't know what to do. At least you're up to speed with them
Keep going with your shrub
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My thought when seeing it was someone keeps pruning the tops out of it. Minimal pruning means more flowers. Mine is 30 year old, 30 foot high and the trunk around a foot thick. It has flowered well this yearThe bottom two photos were taken out of the upstairs windows. It is underplanted with spring flowerers like pulmonaria, hellebores and snowdrops.
@fidgetbones you could well be right, we moved here a couple of years ago and haven't touched it but I can't say for sure that the previous owners didn't
The best one I have seen was in a church yard in St Ives, Cornwall. I also have a Magnolia soulangeana. That gets minimal pruning as well. There is one down the road from me that someone regularly murders and it barely flowers. There seems to be someone going round the estate that thinks that pruning any tree or shrub means chop off the ends and make it into a lollipop shape. Even the council does it. I like to let trees and shrubs grow into a natural shape. If you haven't the space, pick something smaller. The cedar is next door. Then left to right is Magnolia soulangeana, with the M. grandiflora sticking up behind it, a Eucalyptus perinniana, beech hedge, then the bottom oak next door. The top oak is peeking behind the eucalyptus. Photo taken Aug 24th this year from upstairs.
I would agree with @fidgetbones re pruning. It's definitely nicer if shrubs are kept in a natural shape. Maybe the previous owners did keep trimming. I misunderstood what you said - I thought you'd been there longer, because you said it had been planted ten or fifteen years ago.
Re WUMs - the mods can ban people, or remove offensive posts etc, but it doesn't stop them coming back under another name and repeating ad nauseum....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If you can angle the soil a bit more that would be better - so that it doesn't just look like a trench I just did this the other day, but I don't know if this shows it well enough - the top edge of the turf is about 3 or 4 inches from the border, and then I've sloped the compost up towards the hedge.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Thanks @Silver surfer, will crack on tomorrow.
Some people can't see them for what they are, and keep 'feeding' them unwittingly. Then they get rude and offensive and decent folk don't know what to do.
At least you're up to speed with them
Keep going with your shrub
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Re WUMs - the mods can ban people, or remove offensive posts etc, but it doesn't stop them coming back under another name and repeating ad nauseum....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I just did this the other day, but I don't know if this shows it well enough - the top edge of the turf is about 3 or 4 inches from the border, and then I've sloped the compost up towards the hedge.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...